Saint Anselm College

 

Saint Anselm College is a broadly positioned, Catholic, Benedictine, aesthetic sciences school in Goffstown, New Hampshire, United States. Established in 1889 by Abbot Hilary Pfrängle, O.S.B. of Saint Mary's Abbey in Newark, New Jersey, at the solicitation of Bishop Denis Mary Bradley of Manchester, New Hampshire, it is the third-most established Catholic school in New England. Named for Saint Anselm of Canterbury (Archbishop of Canterbury from 1093 to 1109), the school keeps on having a completely working and autonomous Benedictine monastery appended to it, Saint Anselm Abbey. Starting 2015, its enlistment is more or less 2,000.

As indicated by the school, the understudy body is chosen for their scholarly capacities as well as for their own character. The school's scholarly educational modules requires a few rationality and religious philosophy courses and the consummation of a two-year broadly perceived humanities project entitled "Representations of Human Greatness." The organization's dedication to a hostile to level swelling approach helped the school get national media consideration from the Fox News Channel in 2006, and also a Tier 1 positioning from U.S. News and World Report, which in 2016 positioned the school 112th among national human sciences universities, with a confirmations rate that is regarded "particular" at 73.7%. U.S. News & World Report likewise positioned the school as the most famous New Hampshire venue for presidential applicants. Forbes magazine has positioned St. Anselm as the 85th best school in the country, and the 40th in the Northeast. In 2015, Saint Anselm was perceived by Time magazine as one of the "50 Best Liberal Arts Colleges" in the country.

Since the 1950s, the school has assumed an imperative part in the "first in the country" New Hampshire essential, and has served as the national stage for some future presidents, applicants, and supporters. Presidents John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon each conveyed essential approach talks there. The school has been home to a few national presidential civil arguments which have pulled in broad media consideration. The Washington Post as of late alluded to Saint Anselm College as "the Benedictine school with a case seat on America's most arresting political theater".

In 2013, Dr. Steven DiSalvo, the previous president of Marian University was named the tenth president of Saint Anselm. DiSalvo supplanted Father Jonathan DeFelice, O.S.B. following 24 years of administration to the school. Father DeFelice was the longest serving school president in the condition of New Hampshire. In 2015, Dr. DiSalvo reported that the Saint Anselm had connected to enter the exploratory period of NCAA Division III enrollment for every single athletic project